Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-03-26
Fram an Old Resident.

MAIDEN, Mass, March II, 1887.
 ED. CITIzES:-I feel as if l should be lost without the CITIZEN. IL is great pleasure to take it up weekly and look over the familiar names, read of so many friends knew so well; read of their good fortune, fond desires and brilliant hopes, and have as strong an interest ID all that pertains to the welfare or ArI- zona as If I still lived m the ancient and honorable pueblo.
 I hope business will soon take start for the better here as well as there, also, for judge there Is some room Tor lIn- proyement there. There were some knowing chaps ID Boston whom | tried to induce to invest in Arizona, as they were going into the cattle business some three years ago. They thought Mon tans THE place-so near to Cnlcago, you know. Ths frozen csrcasses or about seventy-five per cent of their herds, are a reminder of my words of warning, and I think if they were to start m again they might put a little common sense with their cash and not try 10 raise cat tie without shelter where the mercury goes below the forties, but try more southern location. It IS very Bpusi1g to see the squirmiDg among some ot our Boston smarties who have got sweden ed on "sugariue." They wouldn't touch a mine, you know; a "prospectCr seems to them some sort Ot semi-wlid animal, half horse half alligator, and R man who has B mine or an interest n l one to sell, must be downright sharp CT to be pointed out ss a sad example or ! lack of virtue. But when told that they | could make sugar out of starch by grind | ing 1t, and clear half cent pound, | they jumped at the baIt, and II the pro- | jector of the Imaginable sgindle hadn't been scared away 10 !OIn the Amer!eec colony iu Montreal just when he did, no one knows who would have got bit next
 The latest craze in "consolidstion" Of all the horse railroads under one owner ship, and the saving consequently but when Boston wakes up some tine
 morning to face the fact that giant
 monopoly holds its streets and its means of communication, its alderman and Its
 municipal government in the hollow of its hand and says: What are you go- ing to do about It? When it makes or
 unmakes values ID any outlying portion
 where 1t thoroughly controls. and gets
 Jay Gould to assume directiOH, who will
 say as Vanderbilt did, the public be
 d-d;" then Boston will wish 1t had
 stuck to the old idea that little com
 petition in the carrying industries of the
 country does those who pay the piper
 DO harm.
 should like to know if the rates or
 the $. P. K. R. in Arizona are kept up tC
 the old fgure-lO cents per milel
 believe Arizona IS, or was three years
 ago, the only State or Territory where
 it was allowed in the U. s. I may be
 misinformed. Will you kindly indicate
 ID your first weekly issue after receiving
 this, where Pat Hamilton IS to be ad-
 dressed. I wish very much to get ons
 of his late issues Of "ResouIces of Ari
 zona." Some of my neighbors are be
 coming quite interested in Arizona es
 peclRlly the portion near Phenix. Some
 have gone there from here. l strOngly
 believe that If the artesisn wells wer,
 tried thoroughly much nearer the foot ! hills of the ranges of mountains thel success would be assured almost any where and many dry ranges of GooC , grass be made valuable. I know o places there that are very promising 1T this direction. and hope some time [, , make the trIsl myself.
 I suppose you note m what Q strikIn- attitude the noted Gen, Cook uog
 poses before the eastern Indian l1vera
 He IS heralded by the press as the greE Indian fighter, and what he don't knov
 about Indians IS not worth knowing. often think l would like to rise and ex plain how 1t was. that old Geronim' fooled him time after tiuoe, and scene, 2 to stay in (whsn he took 6 notion f come in just long enough to have hi picture taken. The ignorance some o our apparently well informed caster e people still show ID regard to the India question in Arizona.
 I am glad to note that the mines i 1, Arizona are looking ID, and certain, ] hope some of the new discoveries vii turn out bonanzas.
 Believe me, I look back with grea I pleasure to the sIX years 1 spent in Ar. zonR. and if the wheel f fortune vii . just tip a little uit my way once more, 2 mean to re-vIsit my old friends sE, hauuts, bathe 10 the glorious sunlight 70 breathe the balmy air and Egsin fsHs : my eyes on the maEy-hued CorceDu ] clouds and landscape views of the tern
 tory which renewed its lie and cam
 ont of the wilderness between 1878 an,
 lSS3. <, VI. ALLIs.